Professional Documents
Culture Documents
AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE
OVERVIEW
• Definition of an Arab American
• Identify Arab American Demographics
• Arab American immigration
• Arab American cultural norms
• Identify the five pillars of Islam
• Definition of Muslim
• Sources of Anti-Arab sentiment in the U.S.
• Contemporary Arab American Issues
DEFINITION
• Kuwait
– Arab Americans are in favor of the future democracy of the Kuwaiti Government and for other Arab states
as well
CONTEMPORARY ARAB
AMERICAN ISSUES cont..
• Discrimination in the U.S.
– The biggest concern of Arab Americans is the feeling, as a
whole, they are being discriminated against because of the
perception that terrorists are only Arabs. They feel they are
receiving the backlash of terrorism and of hostage taking
SUMMARY
• Definition of an Arab American
• Identify Arab American Demographics
• Arab American immigration
• Arab American cultural norms
• Identify the five pillars of Islam
• Definition of Muslim
• Sources of Anti-Arab sentiment in the U.S.
• Contemporary Arab American Issues